My Journal of the 2023 Festival du Cinéma Américain de Deauville…
Deauville, Normandy, France, September 1 through 10Déjà vu (seen and critiqued before the festival)
The Talented Mr. Ripley (Jude Law tribute)
Enemy at the Gates (Jude Law tribute)
Brick (Joseph Gordon-Levitt tribute)
Sherlock Holmes (Jude Law tribute)
Black Swan (Natalie Portman tribute)
The Dark Knight Rises (Joseph Gordon-Levitt tribute)
Jackie (Natalie Portman tribute)
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (Peter Dinklage tribute)
Monday 4 September
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (competition screening)
The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed (competition screening)
She Came to Me (séance étoile/Peter Dinklage tribute)
Tuesday 5 September
Snowden (Joseph Gordon-Levitt tribute)
Cold Copy (competition screening)
Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed (Uncle Sam Docs)
Wednesday 6 September
LaRoy (competition screening/winner of 3 festival prizes: Grand Prix, Prix de la Critique and Prix du Publique)
Wayward (world premiere/competition screening)
The Graduates (competition screening)
Thursday 7 September
The Walk (Joseph Gordon-Levitt tribute)
Nuclear Now (Uncle Sam Docs)
Après vu (seen and critiqued after the festival)
May December (Natalie Portman tribute)
Past Lives (competition screening)
Related Commentary
15 September 2023: Seventy-nine years after the Allied troops and forty-three years after my fictional alter ego, I found myself on a beach in Normandy ready to go indoors and watch a bunch of movies [Normandy invasion]
Links to official film festival sites